Stephen Colbert Mocks Fox News' Gretchen Carlson/Megyn Kelly/Greta Van Susteren Line Up Changes
Stephen Colbert perfectly and succinctly summed up the changes coming down the pike at Fox News, with Gretchen Carlson getting a new show and Megyn Kelly moving to prime time. I won't spoil it for you but I will say you won't be sorry you watched the clip. It also includes Colbert's take on George Zimmerman, which was just as perfect. Must see TV!
Read moreFox News Helps Promote George Zimmerman’s Latest Fundraiser: His Lawsuit Against NBC
George Zimmerman’s defense attorneys visited On The Record last night for another round of sore winners’ whining about Zimmerman’s victimhood. Predictably, Greta Van Susteren could not have been more friendly and credulous about their every utterance, including Mark O’Mara’s ludicrous claim that he has “always been very respectful” to Trayvon Martin’s family (just pay no attention to his smearing cross-examination "questions" to Sybrina Fulton about her dead son). But it soon became clear the real purpose of the entire segment: helping to promote Zimmerman’s money-making scheme to sue MSNBC. Van Susteren even helpfully advised that the network quickly settle.
Read moreTodd Starnes Tweets Focus On Violent Zimmerman Verdict Protests - But Obama Is "Dividing America" Really?
In Todd Starnes' twisted world, the LGBT and African-American communities are ruining the nice, white, Christian America that Starnes so loves. And just to prove his point, he posts tweets that provide examples of bad behavior on the part of the two groups that he fears and loathes the most. While nice white, Christian youth do engage in thuggish behavior, Starnes has made it his mission to let his twitter followers know that they need to be afraid, very afraid of blacks gone wild such as his famous "blacks riot at Burger King" and his "why am I not surprised" that black teenagers were "battling" in Louisiana tweets. The verdict in the George Zimmerman trial has provided Starnes with an opportunity to advance his view that African-Americans are wild thugs. While the majority of protests were peaceful, Starnes' Twitter is full of comments about the small number of violent actions which, of course, he links to the president and Eric Holder. But, as News Hounds Ellen reported, Starnes thinks Obama is divisive. Seriously?
Read moreFox’s Todd Starnes: Obama Using Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman Case To ‘Tear Apart’ The Country
Sean Hannity brought back his “studio audience” last night which, as usual, was stacked with those who agree with him. In this case, the subject was Fox News’ Victim Of The Year, George Zimmerman. Predictably, Hannity used Zimmerman’s recent acquittal to race bait against African Americans and President Barack Obama. But Fox’s Todd Starnes did his part above and beyond anything Sean Hannity likely hoped for.
Read moreTavis Smiley Gives O’Reilly A Talking To About Fox News’ Hard Heartedness Over Trayvon Martin’s Death
If you’re a regular O’Reilly Factor watcher, you know that Bill O’Reilly has been on a tear about black crime as somehow “mitigating” racial profiing. It’s pretty infuriating because, when you look at the statistics, whites handily outdo blacks as criminals. It’s not even close. But O’Reilly has been holding himself up as some kind of racial truthteller by insisting that he’s reporting facts others dare not. And he’s using that, along with others on Fox, to further malign African Americans by suggesting that they should focus on black criminals instead of George Zimmerman. However, Tavis Smiley visited The Factor tonight and set O’Reilly straight.
Read moreYour World Guest Worries Immigration Reform Will Prevent The Exploitation Of Undocumented Immigrants
On yesterday’s Your World, former INS agent Michael Cutler argued that immigration reform would cost Americans jobs. Stuart Varney started by briefly arguing the other side: “They say 11 million illegals in this country are doing jobs that Americans do not want to take. So if you pass immigration reform, it doesn’t cost Americans jobs. What do you say?” That allowed Cutler to open the floodgates of fear mongering.
Read moreSteve Doocy Doubles Down On Obama Phone Lie: Obama Cars!!!
The phrase, "you just can't make this stuff up," comes to mind when dealing with anything said on Fox & Friends, "the morning happy-talk show that Ailes uses as one of his primary vehicles to inject his venom into the media bloodstream." But the sad reality is that those on Fox & Friends do make stuff up whether it's their own stuff or stuff from other lying, propaganda based websites. Such was the case, in June, when the gang on the curvy couch appeared to source their outrage du jour from "Breitbart," a site not exactly know for a high standard of journalism. The topic was an iteration of another popular Fox & Friends lie, the "Obama Phone," which is just another fanciful right wing lie (cited during this segment) about how those on welfare (read "Black") are getting free phones courtesy of the Obama administration. That just isn't true and neither was Steve Doocy's claim, on Fox & Friends, that the Obama administration will be giving out cars as part of the immigration bill. Geeese, I thought only Oprah did that!
Read moreZimmerman’s Brother: No Remorse But He’d Give Trayvon Martin’s Family A Hug If He Ran Into Them
George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert, appeared on On The Record last night where he spoke condescendingly of Trayvon Martin’s family, made race-baiting comments about their attorneys, offered no remorse over the tragic situation that took their son – and instead focused on how difficult it is for the Zimmerman family to live with the burden of having “had to take someone’s life.” Predictably, Greta Van Susteren didn’t challenge a word of that jaw-dropping heartlessness, nor did she tell viewers about any of the racist tweets Robert Zimmerman has sent since George shot and killed African American Martin.
Read moreHannity: Didn't George Zimmerman Take One To The Prom?
In the middle of an interview with George Zimmerman's defense attorneys in which Sean Hannity was trying to prove Zimmerman is not a racist, Hannity let his own feelings about African Americans slip when he said, "Didn't George Zimerman... take one to the prom?"
Read moreFox Nation Still Demonizing Trayvon Martin
Apparently, the acquittal of their guy, George Zimmerman, was not good enough for those "civil" and "tolerant" folks at Fox Nation. They're not only continuing to use Zimmerman to racially attack President Obama, they're still demonizing Trayvon Martin.
Read more